Nancy Guthrie Abduction
Feds Arrest Man Who Allegedly Texted Household About Bitcoin
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Lastly, an arrest within the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, but it surely’s not certainly one of her captors … it is a man the feds declare despatched textual content messages to Nancy’s household asking them about bitcoin … and the FBI says they do not imagine the man has any connection to the ransom notice.
In line with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, the feds say a Los Angeles man named Derrick Callella texted Nancy’s daughter Annie and her son-in-law Tommaso Cioni, “Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction.”
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The FBI says the texts have been despatched Wednesday, shortly after ‘TODAY’ anchor Savannah Guthrie uploaded a video of her siblings making a plea to Nancy’s captors. Within the video, Savannah talked about the ransom notice, begged for proof of life and mentioned they have been prepared to speak.
TMZ was despatched a ransom notice on Tuesday that demanded hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in bitcoin in trade for Nancy’s protected return and set two deadlines … we forwarded the notice to legislation enforcement and now the FBI is divulging sure particulars from the notice.
TMZ.com
To be clear … within the prison grievance towards Callella, the FBI says the textual content messages he allegedly despatched Nancy’s household have NOT been linked to the ransom demand.
The feds say Callella used a digital telephone quantity to ship the textual content messages … the FBI says the quantity he used was registered to an e-mail account utilizing his first and final identify, and information indicated the digital telephone quantity was accessed from an IP handle related together with his California residence.
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Callella, in accordance with the FBI, admitted to sending the 2 textual content messages and informed investigators he pulled household info from a cyber web site and had been following the Guthrie kidnapping within the media.
The feds say Callella informed them he despatched the texts to see if the household would reply … and the FBI says knowledge exhibits that he additionally referred to as a Guthrie member of the family 3 minutes after sending the texts and that the decision lasted 9 seconds.
Callella is charged with two federal crimes … one depend of intent to transmit a requirement for ransom and one depend of constructing a telephone name with out disclosing identification to abuse, threaten or harass any particular particular person.
